Server side fix to live weather quietly pushed?

[scotchegg 4,240]

Saw this on Reddit first but lots of users on the official forums say live weather is now reliably much closer to current conditions. Can’t get to my PC until later but exciting if true...

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/major-live-weather-bug-still-present-post-sim-update-4-1-16-2-0/399890/57?u=uzura2203

[cavaricooper 2,615]

That indeed would be brilliant… a real Achilles’ Heel for the sim atm… do let us know, I’m away from the sim for several hours, but have my fingers x’ed!

Ta- C

[scotchegg 4,240]

Well at KSFM currently it is representing what the Meteoblue app says perfectly so, fingers crossed.

[Tom_L 558]

27 minutes ago, scotchegg said:

currently it is representing what the Meteoblue app says

The longstanding bug that now seems solved was Live Weather loading clouds and precipitation data from the Meteoblue weather forecast model for the following day instead of the actual one at around 2000Z and the same data again -  now correctly - around 0900Z.

So the real test of that fix can only take place between 2000Z and 0900Z the next day, and it has passed once yet. Indeed -fingers crossed! As clouds and precipitation are based on a forecast model, it is worth noting that some fuzziness is to be expected, while Temps, Wind and QNH are imported from METAR data and represent actual values.

Big thanks to the users at the official forum for their efforts in persistently reporting their observations (basically since launch) and thus pinpointing the issue in the first place. I didn't even notice something was wrong until the 1.15.10 update.

[PWJT8D 446]

After some unintentional messing about yesterday at a few different locations I noticed that my Live Weather still continued to work after starting new flights. At that time it did not appear that I had to close the sim and restart it to have Live Weather again.